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After Danny Boyle this week confirmed his involvement in Bond 25 (he’ll direct if a script being written by John Hodge is approved), the director’s comments generates even more questions about the next 007 film.

Who will be the composer? Some directors have a long-running collaboration with composers. The duos of Blake Edwards and Henry Mancini along with Steven Spielberg and John Williams come to mind.

The 007 film series isn’t immune. Thomas Newman did the scores for Skyfall and SPECTRE because director Sam Mendes wanted him.

Arnold, of course, knows his way around scoring a Bond film. Pemberton, in scoring 2015’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E., was under orders from director Guy Ritchie to avoid a James Bond sound. To know how to avoid a 007 sound, you have to know what the Bond sound is to begin with.

Then again, Boyle might have a new choice up his sleeve. Assuming Boyle makes it to the Bond 25 director chair, the composer question may be one of the biggest wild cards in the production.

Why Boyle, and why now? Boyle wasn’t asked this question and nobody else is talking for the record.

A guess: For what ever reason, the powers that be (Eon Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) were looking for something different.

In March 2017, the Daily Mail’s Baz Bamigboye reported that six-time 007 screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade had been hired for yet another go. That was confirmed in July 2017 and, as recently as December, Eon boss Barbara Broccoli said in a Hollywood Reporter podcast the writers were still going at it.

P&W was a safe choice. Eon, which has employed P&W’s services since 1998, when they began work on the World Is Not Enough’s first draft, knows what P&W can do. By this time, P&W knows the ups and downs of working for Eon.

Is everything locked down? In the words of Sheriff J.W. Pepper: “Helllllllllll no!”

Outsiders don’t know when Hodge will deliver his first draft. Regardless, it’s doubtful that draft will be ready to go before the cameras. In movies, there is much rewriting after the initial draft is delivered.

What would be the strangest thing you could imagine regarding this process? If P&W were brought in to rewrite whatever Hodge delivers.

Director Danny Boyle told a writer for Metro that he plans to direct Bond 25, with production starting at the end of 2018.

“We are working on a script right now. And it all depends on that really,” Boyle told Metro’s Gregory Wakeman.”

Boyle confirmed he was also involved with a musical.

“I am working on a Richard Curtis script (for the musical) at the moment. We hope to start shooting that in 6 or 7 weeks. Then Bond would be right at the end of the year. But we are working on them both right now.”

Regarding Bond 25, he added: “John Hodge, the screenwriter, and I have got this idea, and John is writing it at the moment. And it all depends on how it turns out. It would be foolish of me to give any of it away.” Boyle spokes to Metro Wednesday in New York.

Variety first reported Boyle could direct the film. Deadline first reported Boyle’s involvement depended whether the Hodge script was accepted. The Mail said Boyle planned to do the musical and Bond 25. The Hollywood Reporter had reported about the musical, saying it would be Boyle’s next movie.

Eon Productions last year hired veteran 007 screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade to write Bond 25. Eon and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer including their involvement in a July 2017 press release that said the film would come out in November 2019 in the United States.

That was before Boyle and Hodge pitched their idea, which Hodge is now writing.

UPDATE (12:15 p.m.): The Associated Press has a tweet out that includes a short video of Boyle saying pretty much what he said to Metro.